February 21, 2018

I found this recipe on chocolate cake at isabellas.dk, where the use of raspberry, rose and yogurt in chocolate cake triggered by curiosity to try out this flavour combination. I already know, that my good friends in Horsens will start to get small tics, when they see the use of rose in cake !!! being afraid of a flavour overdose turning the entire cake into soap. This was not the case, the cake has a delicate flavour of rose, which brings something extra to this chocolate cake. So it is not the last time, that I will bake this chocolate cake.

I made a few modification to the original recipe in form of adding real chocolate instead of only cocoa powder into the cake dough. I used milk chocolate, but if you are bigger fan of dark chocolate, when use dark chocolate instead of.

Instead of Greek yogurt I used normal plain yogurt, as this was I had available in my refrigerator. So use the fermented milk product, which you have available.

Chocolate cake with raspberry and rose: - 1 cake

150 g wheat (cake flour)

2 tablespoons of cocoa powder

2½ teaspoon baking powder

1 pinch of salt

125 g sugar

125 g butter - soft

3 eggs

4 tablespoon of plain yogurt

½ teaspoon of vanilla sugar

2 teaspoon of rose flavouring or 1 tablespoon rose water

100 g chocolate - medium-fine chopped

100 g fresh raspberries

icing sugar for dusting after baking

fresh raspberries for decoration

Heat up the oven to 180'C.

Start by whipping the butter and sugar into a white foamy mass.

Add in the egg one by one, and whip the cake dough in between, so it becomes homogeneous before addition of the next egg.

February 14, 2018

As more easy sweet treat (compared to Valentine Ice with cherry) for your Valentine you could bake these scones with cranberry, raspberry and white chocolate. As extra touch you can use a cutter in heart shape.

As a more time consuming sweet treat for your Valentine you could make an indulgent ice cream full of white chocolate and cherry. Later on today I will share a more easy sweet treat in form Valentine scones with cranberry, raspberry and white chocolate.

I have been using this recipe on chai ice cream as starting point, while creating this Valentine ice cream.

Valentine ice with cherry:

630 g whole milk, 3-3.5% fat

39 g skimmed milk powder

96 g sugar

32 g glucose syrup as powder

6 g ice cream stabiliser

150 white chocolate medium chopped

4 tablespoons Amarana cherry in syrup

Dry-mix all the powder ingredients. Pout them into the milk, as the milk is whipped.

Pour the milk base into the a cooking pot.

Heat the ice cream mix over medium heat until hot, but not boiling.

Add chopped white chocolate into a plastic container.

Pour the ice cream mix into this plastic container little by little, using the warm mixture to melt the white chocolate. After melting of the chocolate cover the plastic container with a lid.

Cool down the ice cream mix in the refrigerator, let the mix stand for minimum 4 hours or night over.

Whip the ice cream mix prior to freezing it.

Pour the mix into the ice cream machine and freeze it into ice cream, which takes around 30-40 minutes.

February 10, 2018

Tomorrow it is Shrovetide Sunday (Fastelavnssøndag) here in Denmark. What does it mean ? It is the peak day for eating Shrovetide buns, until you can not stand the sight of these very rich and fatty buns for another year.

Shrovetide bun are connected with fasting, which starts 49 days before Easter. And when in the fast period you are not supposed to eat meat and wheat flour as well as not drink milk or alcohol. So before the fast started there was big parties, where you would indulge in these foods. Fastelavnssøndag (Shrovetide Sunday) and the following Monday were the last days, where you could eat meat. The following Tuesday was the last day of eating wheat flour, where wheat buns were baked and eaten. This White Tuesday is also known as Pandekagedagen (Pan Cake Day) again relating to the use of wheat flour in pan cakes.

The traditional Danish "fastelavns"/Shrovetide song is like this:

Fastelavn er mit navn Shrovetide is my name

Boller vil jeg have Buns I would like to have

Hvis jeg ingen boller får If I get no buns

Så laver jeg ballade When I will make trouble

Boller op, boller ned Buns up, buns down

Boller i min mave Buns in my tummy

Hvis jeg ingen boller får If I get no buns

Så laver jeg ballade When I will make trouble

If you have no clue, what kind of Shrovetide Bun to bake tomorrow, please look below for further inspiration.

Abd if you want to know that Shrovetide bun, which I am baking tomorrow, when visit my blog again tomorrow afternoon.